lacteal
See also: lactéal
English
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editlacteal (comparative more lacteal, superlative most lacteal)
- Relating to milk.
- (anatomy) Relating to milk production.
- lacteal ducts in the breasts
- Relating to, or containing, chyle.
- the lacteal vessels
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editNoun
editlacteal (plural lacteals)
- (physiology, chiefly in the plural) Each of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the mesentery to the thoracic duct.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 65:
- These ‘veins’ must have been the lacteals or chyle-vessels, whose function was explained by Aselli some two thousand years later.
- (obsolete) One of the lactiferous ducts or other components of milk-producing organs.
Translations
editlymphatic vessel
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